News is just breaking across Twitter that the Senate of
Canada has finally passed third-reading on Bill C-304, which is an Act to
repeal the censorship provision – Section 13 of the Canadian “Human Rights”
Act.
Section 13 makes it an offence to "likely" "expose"
privileged groups to "hatred and/or contempt." There are NO defences
under Section 13! Even truth and intent are considered irrelevant to a
finding of discrimination. The law was enacted in 1977 in
order to silence a man named John Ross Taylor for messages he recorded onto
his telephone answering machine. In the intervening 32 years, not a single
person who has been hauled up on Section 13 charges has ever been acquitted - a
100%
conviction rate. Section 13
has been used and abused since its inception.
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More information to come tonight as information is posted to
the Senate’s website.
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